Fiction: general and literary

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.

In the aftermath of COVID‑19, the world believed it had learned how pandemics end.

In the quiet fictional European city of Velmora, time seems to move gently through rain-covered streets, glowing cafés, and old tram stations.

Mumbai's Bollywood: The Eternal SpotlightWhere dreams wear sequins—and shadows.

Muhammad Ari Pratomo was once a rising star in a prestigious law firm—until his conscience forced him to walk away.

The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih AlameddineIn The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction.

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.

What if your life purpose is found in an unexpected promise?

The Kindling: A Political Thriller"e;The exploitation of a genuine wound does not make the wound fictional.

A container ship crosses the North Atlantic in three places at once.

The new is really old.

Lovebird as Meany .

Raised By Silence is a deeply emotional contemporary drama about childhood emotional neglect, generational trauma, and the painful journey toward healing.

Natalia Moreno is thrilled when she arrives in Fiji for a relaxing vacation.

A love letter to pop music, American Spirits charts an icons falland an obsessive fangirls rise.

Treading on Shifting Ground promises to be a deeply moving and important narrative work.

In the middle of cold London rain, Johan Vale lives a quiet life above a small repair shop filled with broken radios, unfinished coffee, and loneliness he no longer questions.

After losing the career he spent years building in London, Ethan Vale returns to the small English town of Brindle, a place he once believed he had outgrown.

In a Virginia hospital, forty-one-year-old Matthew Winton awakens from a car accident with no memory of his life after the age of thirteen.

Some girls write in their diaries.

Strike Beirut by Garrison West is a gripping, high-velocity tech noir thriller that plunges readers into a dark, suffocating underworld of machine-speed warfare and systemic corporate conspiracies.

Reed Waters is the sort of middle-aged man few people notice.

Vivid and vigorous, precise and unsparingly truthful .

This collection contains intense poems about Barn's dysfunctional nuclear family, the housing project that owned this youth, friendships that helped to shape a life journey.

In the quiet fictional town of Rosehill, life moves slowly beneath maple trees, rainy streets, and warm café lights.

'The legendary Quintin Jardine .

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In the shadow of Babylon's golden walls, where kings ruled empires and scribes preserved the memory of the world, one young woman loses everything.

What if one choice changed everything…and love was the only way forward?

'This book is a pleasure and a treasure' TAYARI JONES, Women's Prize-winning author of An American Marriage and KinTHE DEAD ARE RELENTLESS GOSSIPS, OR AT LEAST THESE DEAD ARE.

Before she found her voice, she had to fight for her life.

Alex Hale never thought his life would amount to more than the quiet streets of Brimvale.

The dust has settled.

Life is tough.

Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.

Unlock a hidden history that challenges everything you thought you knew about the ancient world.

When loss emptied the house of sound, she learned that silence still had a voice.

Winner of the Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz Prize Winner of Colombias National Novel Award This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds.

A collection of short stories from hiking on numerous trails.

Demon Copperhead meets Les Choristes in this tender coming-of-age story, told through the intersecting lives of a group of troubled boys in a home for delinquent young men in the American south in the 1980s'A stunningly beautiful debut; a novel of life on the margins, written with style and grace, and populated with characters that stay with you long after the final page' Tom Newlands, author of Only Here, Only NowLONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2026 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE*** I don t know about that, sir.

Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window.

'A unique teller of tales .

The cats with the following names get kissed by Emma: Riki, Tiki, Viki, Niki, Riki-Tiki, Miki, Vili.

48 Hours Rich by Shirley A.

Philemon has spent twenty-one years preparing the dead.

This is the adventure of Pickworth, a short story about a little wooden bird.

Why are we here?

Born from an affair between a Cuban painter and a Hollywood actress, Luz was hidden away through a secret adoption meant to protect her from political enemies and hide her true heritage.

From the acclaimed author of Beasts of a Little Land and Reese's Book Club pick City of Night Birds, an exquisite story collection about humans in precarious balance with the natural world.

There are stories that belong to history.